93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 20 min read
Is G Flip A Woman? If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives. Peter Clarke 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic. Jason Garshfield 15 Mar 2024 · 16 min read
Katie Herzog’s Plan B In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing. Katherine Brodsky 11 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
A Love Letter to the Theatre An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’ Hannah Gal 10 Mar 2024 · 11 min read
Attila Invictus In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read
Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality. Alan S. Rome 8 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Kevin Mims 7 Mar 2024 · 26 min read
On Sin and Repentance Our secular ideas about guilt and absolution distort the language and values of Christianity. Marilyn Simon 4 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny Fight Fascism The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II. Jacob Bielecki 26 Feb 2024 · 14 min read
Beginning in Gladness, Ending in Madness 1900–1950 was a golden age of literary eccentricity. Stephen Akey 21 Feb 2024 · 14 min read
Motorpsycho Nightmare Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50. Kevin Mims 20 Feb 2024 · 17 min read
In the Country of Last Things A look back at the work and impressively productive life of Brooklyn’s most famous resident, Paul Auster. David Cohen 19 Feb 2024 · 13 min read